Shannon Reed - 1,001 GMAT practice questions

1. Table of Contents

Welcome to 1,001 GMAT Practice Questions For Dummies. Pay no mind to the dummies part of the title. Obviously, if youre gearing up to tackle an MBA program, youre no dummy. Youve already successfully finished high school and college, and you might even have a masters degree. Now youre ready to take your education to a higher level.

What you have probably learned after skimming through admissions requirements is that many MBA programs include scores from the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) as an admissions requirement. So how do you prepare for such a rigorous exam? Clearly, you need to become familiar with the topics covered and the types of questions youll be faced with. You need practice accompanied by pointers on how best to answer the questions. This book provides all the guidance you need. Along with its 1,001 relevant practice opportunities, this book gives answers and detailed explanations that show simple and effective ways to solve the often challenging GMAT questions.

This book serves as comprehensive, standalone preparation for the GMAT, or you can use it in conjunction with the latest edition of GMAT For Dummies (Wiley). Either way, this book helps you identify question types and content areas you need to work on. The practice questions are constructed to closely resemble the actual exam questions in both format and level of difficulty so that you will know what to expect when you take your exam. The abundance of questions gives you ample opportunity to practice until youre feeling confident and prepared on the big day.

If you miss a question, read the answer explanation and try to figure out where you went wrong. Go back and solve it again, this time avoiding your earlier mistake. Read the answer explanations for the questions you get right as well. Often, the answer explanation will reveal not only the solution to the question but also how to answer it most efficiently. This strategy helps you internalize concepts and skills.

Whatever you do, keep a positive spirit. This book contains challenging questions not unlike those you might encounter on the GMAT. These questions are not meant to discourage you but rather to show you how to solve and master them.

This book has two parts. The first part contains 1,001 practice questions divided among seven chapters. These chapters are organized around the four sections of the GMAT: Analytical Writing Assessment (AWA), Integrated Reasoning (IR), Quantitative, and Verbal. The second part of the book contains the answers and detailed answer explanations.

The AWA requires you to write an analytical critique of a presented argument. The IR questions require you to apply analytical reasoning and math skills to various data-intensive scenarios. The Quantitative section consists of problem solving and data sufficiency questions. These questions test your knowledge and understanding of arithmetic, basic probability and statistics, algebra, and geometry. The Verbal section consists of reading comprehension, sentence correction, and critical reasoning questions. These questions test your ability to read and comprehend unfamiliar written material, to recognize and apply the basic rules of standard written English, and to use logical reasoning and critical thinking.

Your purchase of this book gives you so much more than a thousand (and one) questions you can work on to improve your GMAT performance. It comes also with a free, one-year subscription to hundreds of practice questions online. Not only can you access this digital content anytime you want, on whichever device is available to you, but you can also track your progress and view personalized reports that show you which concepts you need to study the most.

The online practice that comes free with this book offers the same 1,001 questions and answers that are available here. The benefit of the online questions is that you can customize your online practice to focus on the topics that give you the most trouble. You get to choose the types of questions and the number of questions you want to practice. The online program tracks how many questions you answer correctly versus incorrectly so that you can monitor your progress and spend time studying exactly what you need.